You know you're fixed gear crazy when...

And just nipping outside leaving her inside to pass over a pair of those crank things to furious tiles looking like a drug dealer coming back with £50.

Yep, all that sneaking out in the evening, because you have to pick up/drop off something.

And hoping, that she will never find out all those flattened boxes with Wiggle's logo behind the fridge before the dustmen comes on Thursday morning.

Yep, all that sneaking out in the evening, because you have to pick up/drop off something.

And hoping, that she will never find out all those flattened boxes with Wiggle's logo behind the fridge before the dustmen comes on Thursday morning.

Get it delivered to work, then sneak it home in your backpack.

Get it delivered to work, then sneak it home in your backpack.

+1

sneak it home the day she is shopping or having a coffe with her friends

I'm self-employed.
And yes, I did ask someone on the forum to buy stuff off eBay for me...

... you get on a geared bike and freewheeling freaks you out for the whole ride.

When you can't throw the cranks over a full revolution, they keep getting stuck vertical...

..you do a Graphic Design degree, yet your dissertation examines courier culture.

you spend half an hour trying to explain the hipster spice route to someone

+1

sneak it home the day she is shopping or having a coffe with her friends

''oh that? nah, ive had it for ages...''

''oh that? nah, ive had it for ages...''

Better one: "Nah, I didn't pay anything for that De Rosa frame. My mate is going back to the OZ and left it behind. It's just and old piece of rubbish steel. Not like these new stealth carbon fibre ones, honey" or "Nah, I swapped that stem which was in the kitchen forever for these cranks. You know I wouldn't touch that investment fund"

...you read this thread at 1:13 in the morning instead of finishing your course work, which you really need to finish tonight.

..you do a Graphic Design degree, yet your dissertation examines courier culture.

+1

...your desktop back ground is this.

hiding the wiggle envelopes! definitely. No work address that I can ship to right now, it sucks.

...your desktop back ground is this.

I kid you not.... thats been my desktop for a year now! that exact very same chart :)

You have an arrangement with a mate whereby if his Missus asks where it came from he says that you have "lent" it to him, and visa versa. Which only works until the two wives meet for a chat.

When your wife finally looks in the barn and finds you have 9 bikes and you can't understand what the fuss is about???

.. We have 9 bikes.. 4 of which are hers..

You dream about punching off the wing mirror and shouting at a white stretch limo which cut you up turning left...

... you go into a coffee shop and when the barista asks if you would like your coffee black or white you feel a little bit racist.

When you leave some spanners out and your wife automatically puts the 15mm one with the bike tools.

When your looking for a new flat and the Mrs can't understand why you want another room/shed just to keep all the bike parts which don't cost you 'much' at all.

When your girlfriend/wife/boyfriend/husband (who is a non-cyclist) is able to name different brands of bikes cycling past and quote addresses of most Central London bikeshops...

Whether it's worth getting titanium bolts for my fixed, rather than re-MOTing the car.

When your looking for a new flat and the Mrs can't understand why you want another room/shed just to keep all the bike parts which don't cost you 'much' at all.
I know your pain. I ended up saying I need at least one bike and it has to be stored inside. That was my one criteria for the place. Now I have room for at least two! :)

when you nearly have an accident, not because your eye was caught by a member of the oposite sex, but because you saw a really nice bike coming the other way

^^ +1 - Only I was driving the car!

not because your eye was caught by a member of the oposite sex

.....or the same sex

come on lets not discriminate :)